6th November – Kings Gym Tower Bridge Launch Week Shoot

The day after filming Leon Barnett’s academy match, we were back on the road—this time leaving home at 4am for Kings Gym’s brand-new Tower Bridge location. This was their pre-launch content shoot, giving us exclusive access to the site before members arrived. Perfect for gym photography, fitness videography, and commercial content creation.

We rolled into London around 9:30am, secured an underground parking spot thanks to Lee, the GM, and unpacked the kit (fuelled by a much-needed McDonald’s breakfast). With the space still quiet, we got to work immediately.

I launched the DJI Avata 2 to capture dynamic FPV-style gym

footage, while Adelina moved through the rooms with the DJI Osmo, gathering sweeping, slow-motion wide shots. But from there… things got chaotic.

Being an underground, fully enclosed gym meant zero signal—and the Avata absolutely hated it. It started drifting, losing control, and bouncing off equipment. Manual override failed, and with more people arriving, it became too risky to keep flying. Luckily, we’ve since flown it at Moonpig in Tamworth with no issues, proving this was 100% a location problem.

Switching gears, we grabbed the DJI RS4 gimbal, which we’ve recently been testing with heavier setups (external monitor, mounts, mics, bigger batteries). It’s been a calibration nightmare lately—so if any fellow videographers have tips, let us know! While I filmed the month’s content with Claudia, Joe, and Aaliyah, Adelina battled the gimbal into submission and got us running smoothly again. To cover what the drone couldn’t capture, I shot a full handheld fly-through of the entire gym, making sure we still delivered a dynamic walk-in perspective.

Next up: interviews with Lee and Paige to introduce them to the Kings Gym community. We dragged out the huge tripod… which immediately failed because a bolt had magically vanished. One leg kept collapsing every few seconds. At this point the gear was fighting us, but we weren’t giving up.

Despite every obstacle thrown at us, the content came out incredible—especially the session with Joe Ballinger, a professional bodybuilder and the embodiment of Kings Gym culture. We planned a raw, intense visual showing the realphysical demand of bodybuilding. No music. No soft edits. Just the grinds, breaths, slams, and aggression of a true heavy lifting session. Watching it back made us sweat.

As for the gym photography, I’m genuinely buzzing with how it turned out. Kings Gym Tower Bridge has an entirely different aesthetic compared to their other sites—darker, moodier, almost like an exclusive training spa. They’ve honoured the old boxing gym heritage while adding new premium touches throughout: a physiotherapy room, dedicated booty room, beautiful lighting, and powerful design choices.

It's the new era of Kings Gym—and we’re proud to have captured it through photography, videography, and gym content creation that showcases the intensity, style, and personality of the brand.

If you want long-form content, reels, gym walkthroughs, launch campaigns, or FPV gym footage (in places that aren’tunderground bunkers), we’ve got you covered.

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